1 THE WEATHER. Fair, slightly warmer 'today; Sun day fair. - TTTT 1 1 V fiBB a tt ELECTION OVER! -J A S nSlV iffipV HSKVi fffl'WMr v r I I) 1 A IT lj Now for business. Early advertising 1 : VOI XCI NO. 56. WILMESTOTON, K. C, SATURDAY MOENlNG, NOVEMBER 30, 1912., LEADERS OF HOUSE DISCUSS PROSPEG I Clark and Mann Talk Over Problems of the Three Months' Session MURDERER CONFESSES AccidentaPi?ig 2C Years Ago Start ed Hidxey on Career of Debauch ery Killed Two Boys, He Says WHOLE NUMBER 13,182. SENATE "TO ME INITIATIVE Will Likely be Given First Chance at Framing Tariff Bills for the Wil son Administration Con ference Today. Washington, Nov. 29. How to dis pose of one billion dollars' worth of annual appropriation bills and tran suet other general legislation in 26 days is the problem worrying Speaker Champ Clark and assistant managers of, the House of Representatives. Re publican Leader James R. Mann, just buck from Panama, dropped in today io discuss with the Speaker prospects lor the three months' session. "We did not make any plans for the session," said Mr. Mann later. Speaker ClarR agreed that no plans for the future had been considered. Senators and Representatives pour ed into Washington today from all di rections. Senator Gallinger, the Re publican nominee for the office of President pro tempore of the Senate, is expected tomorrow and a Republi can Senatorial caucus probably will be. held soon after his arrival to deter mine whether . the New Hampshire Senator shall be continued as the nom inee or some one else chosen for the honor. In case a caucus is held there will be more interest in the personnel of its membership than in the subject of discussion. , Senator Bacon, .now the temporary presiding officer of the Senate, has ;aKen up with returning Senators the question of procedure for next Mon day. It is believed, that after conven ing the Senate will be officially In lormed first of the death of Senators Unburn and Rayner and that Sen ator Root then will officially announce th- death of Vice "President Sherman aiid present a ' resolution for imme-' diate adjournment. Confer With Underwood Today. Representative Oscar W. Under wood. Democratic tariff leader of th'e House, when he begins tomorrow his route rences with House associates o er the plans for tariff revision next Spring, will be met with a suggestion from Senate Democrats that the Sen ate be given a first hand chance at the framing of the tariff bills for the Wil son administration. A plan for co-operation 'between the Democrats of the two houses, long ad vocated by Senator Hoke Smith, of Borgia, has been having attention from incoming members, and has se cured considerable support. Demo ' :aric members of the Senate Finance Committee are urging that body and tli' House Ways and Means Commit tee be converted, informally, into a joint body; and that the two houses work in harmony on the tariff legisla tion. Representative Underwood's arrival in Washington tonight will bring tariff ivans to the front. Members of the Ways and Means Committee have been urged by the chairman to with hold expression of opinions, but many of them have publicly declared in fa- r of a revision of the tariff schedule by schedule, the plan that will be' fa vored, it is believed, by Chairman Un-d-nvood. Reform in Fiscal Scheme. A revolutionary reform in the fiscal scheme of the government, so far as h provision of funds for govern mental expenditures is concerned, is projected in a resolution to be pres "d in the House at the coming ses sion by Representative Sherley, of Kentucky, third ranking Democrat on ''i House Appropriations Committee. H:p resolution, introduced at the last ssion. contemplates the creation of a budget commission in the House, to 1 ;ie jurisdiction over all estimates or annual expenses and allot to the Various appropriations of the House ' amounts available for the various i ranches of the government service. Kvery effort will be made to have ' ''-- measure operative with the ad 1 if of the new Democratic adminis-:-arion, Mr. Sherley said today. The resolution will run counter to 'i!" budget proposals of President T;m. which will be submitted to Con--'ss in a special message just before Christmas holidays. The Presi- iu contemplates a general budget v h'Mi e by which the estimates of the arious departments for expenditures iil be submitted to the House in bulk. i'h a general statement of the coun ty's financial condition. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 29 The acci dental killing jf a man in Lowell, Mas sachusetts, 20 years ago was given to night by John Frank Hickey in signed confession a's the starting point of a career of debauchery and crime, during which' he murdered two boys and assaulted many others. Hickey's victims, according to his confession, were Ed. Morey, of Lowell, Mass., poisoned with laudanum over 20 years ago, Michael Kruck, 12 years old, a New York newsboy, strangled in Cen tral Park in 1902, and Joseph Josephs, the 7-year old son of George Josephs, a merchant -of Lackawanna, killed in a similar manner October 12th, 1911. "The details of Hickey's last two crimes are too revolting to make pub lic," said District Attorney Dudley. Hickey apparently is a man with a dual personality. He is intelligent. He is now overcome with remorse and says again and again that he cant comprehend what possessed him to commit tne crimes. He asserts that he became a maniac only when filled with whiskey. Hickey's full confe3 sion came after a series of admis sions made to District Attorney Dud ley and Police Chief Gilson. of Lacka wanna, that began Wednesday when the two officials left New York for Buffalo with their prisoner. Today Hictkey agreed to sign a con fession and was taken to the district attorney's office through the tunnel connecting the county jail and the city hall, used today for the first time since Czolgosz was taken through it after being sentenced to death for the as sassination of President McKinley. There he again went over the details of his crimes. In addition to the mur ders, Hickey confessed to many as saults and attempted asaults on smalt boys. He insisted that all his crimes "were committed while he was intoxi cated. Whenever he became drunk, he said, there came over him an insatia ble desire to kill small boys. His vic tims were tortured before being kill ed. After signing his confession Hickey said hewas glad hi6 life of crime was .at an end. "I. have made by peaQe with God," fie said. "I am ready '"to pay the pen alty for my crimes demanded by man." . The killing of Morey in Lowell, ac cording to Hickey's confession, was accidental. He was then a clerk in a drug store and Morey frequently beg ged him for whiskey. To get rid of the man one day Hick ey said, he put, laudanum in the whis key, intending to makeym sick, but Morey, weakened by dissipation, died. This murder preying on his mind for years, he said, ultimately drove him to drink. District Attorney Dudley said Hick ey's confession came from his lips without - much persuasion. Police Chief Regan today received a letter from Henry Kruck, of New York, who says he is the father of the murdered Kruck boy, begging permission to see Hickey. "I am not happy since the child was lost," the letter reads. "No matter where I go or what I do, my child is always on my mind. Maybe justice will cool me up when the murderer is dead." In reply Kruck was told he might see the prisoner provided he submitted to a search at police headquarters be fore going to the jail. CHAR LES H. HYDE IS FOUND GUILTY Former New York City Cham berlain Must Pay Penal ty for Bribery VERDICT ABOUT MIDNIGHT JACKSON SUCCEEDS RAYNER Gov. Goldsborough, of Maryland, Ap points Republican National Com mitteeman, to Serve In Sen ate UntH Jan., 1914 Baitmore, Nov. 29. Governor Goldsborough tonight announced the appointment of William P. Jackson, Republican National . committeeman fKr Maryland, to succeed the late Unit ed States Senator Isidor Rayner. He wiii Serve until the Legislature which meets m January, 1914 fill what will then be an unexpired term The Ent.re Day Was Taken Up By that time algo will elect snccr to senator John Walter Smith, Demo crat, whose term will expire in 1915. SHORT ARMISTICE IS NOW IN S Counsel In Summing Up Jus tice Gorr's Charge to Jury Consumed Two Hours" CANAL CONFERENCE EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHILDREN Only Playhouse of the Sort in the World to be Opened at New York w York, Nov. 29. A children's li'arre. the only playhouse in the '"'rid devoted exclusively to the enter ' Mimpnt of children, is to be opened ; Xew York next month. The funds r the enterprise were provided ny v"ii!iam K. Vanderbilt. but it is ex '' ted to be practically self support ing. The auditorium will seat 800 chil 'n and has 12 boxes. The wall deco- y-rions are in nursery style. Plays to be given in the afternoon be- ?i fining at 3:30 o'clock, an hour con- wifnt for school children. Presidents of Sectional Meetings to be Held In Atlanta Announced Atlanta, Ga.. Nov. 29. Presidents of the sectional meetings to be held in Atlanta in connection with the Pa nama Canal Conference, December 10th and 11th. today were announc ed by the local Chamber of Commerce: Railroad Section W. W. Finley. president of the Southern Railway, Washington, D. C- Steamship Section J. W. Porch, nresident New Orleans Progressive Union, New Orleans, La. nttrm Trade Section W. A. Er viin RPcrptarv and treasurer Erwin Cotton Mills. West- Durham, N. L. Manufacturers Section u. uunoy Jordan, president Eagle and Phoenix "Mills, Columbus, Ga. Commercial Bodies Wilmer L Moore, president 'Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta, Ga. Oriental Trade Section K. Fuku- shima'. formerly of Japan, now of Dal las, Texas. Iron and Steel Section John W. Sibley, president Birmingham Cham ber of Commerce, Birmmgnam, Aia. The conference will be opened by John Barrett, Washington, D. C, pres ident of the Pan-American Union. A committee from the local Cham ber of Commerce, headed by President Wilmer L. -Moore and General R. K. Evans, commander of the Department of the Gulf, will go to Washington Sunday to invite ambassadors from South American countries to attend the conference. London, Nov. 29. Despite theiose watch which had been inaugurated by the police, suffragettes again toniSfnt destroyed the Contents of various mail boxes, pouring che'micals into " them. They even invaded the General Post office, where acids were placed in aev 'eral boxes. In the financial section. f where cpntents of the mail receptacles are always valuahje, numerous pieces of mail were destroyed. New York, Nov. 29. Charles H. Hyde, former city chamberlain, was found guilty tonight of bribery in con nection with the performance of his duties as a city official. The jury which had been hearing his case in the Supreme Court rendered its ver dict shortly before midnight after nearly three and a half hours' delibera tion. Justice Golf remanded Hyde until December -4th, and the former cham berlain was led across the bridge of Sighs to a cell in the Tombs. It was his first taste of prison life, for ho had been at liberty on bail since his indictment and during his trial. When the case was given to the jury shortly after 8 o'clock there were, few who expected a verdict in so short a time and when word came fromlhe jury that it wished to report Justice- Goff was not at hand. It was nearly 40 minutes before he appear ed. Hyde was brought in""- and faced the jury. As the word "guilty" fell from -the foreman's lips, Hyde's eyes, which had been fixed on the jurors' faces, did not waver and he gave no evidences of emotion. ' After his counsel, John B. Stanchfield. had asked for and" obtain ed the privilege of making such mo tion in the case on Wednesday next, as he deemed proper, the "pedigree" of the former chamberlain was taken. Hyde answered the questions in a .ejear . voice. -""vvTnen .'he--came to be lead -away ne flushed and walked with drooping head to the door. Justice Goff in discharging the jury thanked its members for their atten tion to the case and their conscienti ous discharge of duty. Case to Jury at 8:08 P. M. New York. Nov. 29. The case of Charles H. Hyde, former city chamber lain, on trial for alleged bribery, was gifen to the jury at 8:08 o'clock to night at the close of. a two-hour charge by Supreme Court Justice Goff. Half an hour later the jurymen went, to dinner, resuming their deliberations as soon as their meal was finished. Hyde is accused, in the words of the State's counsel to the jury, or "using the power and the pressure of his official position, unlawfully to in duce" Joseph G. Robin, head of the Northern Bank, to cause the bank to loanthe tottering Carnegie Trust Co., $130,000. Counsel for State and defense spent the final lay of the trial in suriiming up. Assistant District Attorney Moss attacked the alienists called by. the defense who declared that Robin is insane. The prosecutor declared he -would not be afraid to submit the ex banker to a test of mental control, quietness, command of himself and logical memory with some of the ex perts who had found "Robin faulty in those particulars. Mr. Moss depicted flaws in the alibi built up for the ac cused man, Mho testified he was at home the hour Robin declared Hyde was in conference with him and bring ing pressure to bear to force the loan. Max D. Steur, counsel for Hyde, tried to show that the facts brought out during the trial made impossible the conversation which Robin said took place between him and Hyde. Justice Goff, In charging the jury, said: "The meaning of the charge is Did the defendant receive something fby which his course of action was in fluenced? If he did, tnen ne is gumy of the charge of bribery, "if there was any consideration whatsoever, even If it was of no intrin sic value,, the proposition is tne same Mr. Jackson, who is a resfdent of Salisbury, has been closely associated with the Governor, socially and po litically. In the recent Presidential campaign he was the leader of the Taft forces in this State. Mr. Jackscn is 44:-years old. and a business man of .Jarge and varied in- teiests, chief ol which is the manufac ture of lumber. He is reputed to be a millionaire His entry into active politics dates from 1908, when he became Republi can National committeeman for Mary land. Mr. Jackson s father, William H. Jackson, served three terms in Congress. His uncle, the late Elihu E. Jackson, was Democratic Governor of Maryland from 1888 until 1892. It 'is well-known that Mr. Jackson has long cherished an ambition to go to the United States Senate. He was the choice of the Republican minority m the Legislature in 1910, which elect ed Mr. Rayner and it is understood he will be a candidate at the Senato rial primaries next Fall. Mr. Jackson was twice married. He has four children, two of which were by his first wife, who died several years ago. Senate Now Evenly Divided Washington, Nov. 29. The appoint ment of William P. Jackson, a Repub lican, as the successor to the late Senator Rayner of Jlaryland, reduces the supposed Democratic majority in the new Senate to sU point .very near the dividing line. J3efore Senator Rayner's death the Democratic lead ers counted on having 49 votes, or one more than a majority of 96. Now they can count on only 48 votes with the Democratic Vice-President to cast . . i ' ' " Envoys About Agreed Upon Fortnight's Suspension of Hostilities TURK RESERVES SURRENDER TELL OF TRAILING M' Witnesses at Dynamite Trial Testify It Took Five Months and Six Days to Land Los Angeles Times Dynamiter Bulgarians Capture Two Entire Divi sions Near Demotica Nothing Known as to What Field Armistice Will Affect MASS MEETING CALLED Bainbridge, Ga., Mayor Would AJIevi ate Feeling Among Tobacco Men Bainbridge, Ga., Nov. 29. Citizens from throughout the country, are in vited in a call issued here .'today by Mayor J. W. Callahan to attend mass meeting in this city next Monday night to fomulate plans to alleviate feeling arising between the large and small tobacco growers as a result of the recent burning of tobacco barns by "night riders." Information also was received here today that thcj small tobacco farmers nave called a meeting for Attapulgus, Ga., on the Florida-Georgia boundary line, on De cember 13th. No announcement has kbeen made as to the purpose of the 'meeting of the small growers. The larger growers belong to the American Tobacco Sumatra Company, which was formed three years ago. It has been claimed that their consolida tion resulted in the smaller grower getting a lower price for his tobacco Guards have been placed around the barns of the members of the large as sociation since the five burnings in this county. Decatur and Gadsden county, Florida. Detectives also have been employed to investigate the burnings and place the responsibility. The situation is regarded as serious. OUTLINES RICH, LIVED IN SQUALOR Woman Worth f 1300,003 Suffocated In Her Home at Brooklyn New York. Nov. 29. Witbin a few hnnrs after smotke suffocated to death an aeed recluse, Miss Octavia Fried- rick, in her home in Brooklyn yester day,' Anthony Oreickto, a barber, who kent a ahoo in the house, where the spinster lived in apparent poverty re lated to the police a story m wmcn he claimed to be sole heir to $300,000 left him in a will drawn by Miss Fried rick two months ago. The claimant said he had taken care of the bedridden recluse for years, and that her will was made in gratitude. The will, he said, was locked in a safe deposit vault. The fire in which Miss Friedriok lost her life is believed to have been of accidental origin. Denoslts made in SAVINGS DE PARTMENT of the AMERICAN NA TIONAL BANK on or before the sec ond of December will draw 4 per cent. Compound Interest from December firsL The American xsationai uans has over two million dollars resourc es and offers more protection to SAV INGS DEPOSITORS than any bank in this section of the State. I Advertisement.; 2t ' The Senate will likely be , asked to take the initiative next Spring in framing tariff 'bills for the Wilson ad ministration. J. Frak Hickey yesterday made a complete confession of the murder of Joseph Josephs, of Lakawanna, N. Y.. and alsq admitted he killed ' Michael Kruck, a New York newsboy, 10 years ago. . Detective Raymond Burns told at the "dynamite conspiracy" trial yes terday how it took five months and six "days to land McNamara and arrast him for the Los Angeles Times explo sion. Speaker Champ Clark and. Republi can Leader Mann, of the House, both of whom are in Washington yesterday discussed the prospect of transactin any business at the coming short ses sion of Congress. : Charles H. Hyde, former New York city chamberlain, was found guilty of bribery while in charge of the city's finances, just before last midnight by the jury which has been sitting in the case. Gov. Goldsborough, of Maryland, yesterday-appointed Wm. P. Jackson, Republican National committeeman for that State to serve in the U. S. Senate till the Legislature of 1914 se lects a successor to theMate Senator Rayner. Constantinople last night ' reported the probability of a fortnight's armis tice being signed by the peace envoys by Sunday, but nothing' is iknown as to whether the' proposed armistice will affect the whole field of operations or only the Tchatalja lines. New York markets: Money on call strong, 6 1-4 per cent; ruling rate 6; Closing bid 18; offered at 20. Spot cot ton closed .quiet. Flour quiet. Wheat easy; No. 2 red 1.05 to 1.0a. " Corn steady, 53. Turpentine and rosin easy. . ; London, Nov. 29 .Constantinople tonight reports the probability of fort night's armistice being signed by Sun day by the peace plenipotentiaries, who -are negotiating for a cessa tion of histilities between the Turks and the Balkan allies. From the Bul garian side there has been no news today concerning the peace negotia tions, except the vague statement that thsy are making satisfactory prog ress. Nothing has transpired as to wheth er the proposed armistice will affect the whole field of war operations or only the Tchatalja lines. The news received today of the sur render of two entire divisions of Turk ish reserves to the Bulgarians in the neighborhood of Demotica, a short distance south of Adrianople after se vere fighting, shows there still are large isolated bodies of Turkish troops unaccounted for, which must be con sidered in arranging an armistice. The armies are said to have large num bers of men who are proceeding in Greek transports from the Gulf of Sa loniW, either for Gallipoti peninsula, which separates the Dardanelles from the Aegean sea or to join the allied array at Tchatalja. No news has been received concerning these transports s.s yet and the disposal of the men they carry, in event an armistice is arranged, would present some dlffi - "Akhongfr-lt- ist-y; sfefeo4s- sume that an armistice is in sight, the fact that the negotiations continue at Baghtche and that apparently no defi nite time limit has been fixed' as to the duration of the existing suspen sion of hostilities tends toward the belief that a peaceful solution of the trouble is approaching. There were no fresh developments today concerning the proposed confer ence between the powers on the Bal kan situation or concerning the dis pute between Austria and Servia as to occupation by the latter country of a port on the Adriatic. Churchill's View of War. London, Not. 29. "The only epitaph history could write upon such a catas trophe," said Winston Spencer Chur chill, first lord of the admiralty, in re-1 ferring to the possibility of a general war as a result or tne Balkan situa tion, "would be this that a whole generation of men went mad and tore themselves to pieces." Mr. Churchill's remarks were made at a banquet given in his honor here tonight. He said that while a strong feeling naturally existed between Rus sia and Austria over the Balkan ques tion, a resort to war by them would be a horror utterly disproportionate to any cause existing or any conipen sation that might be achieved. Armistice Within Sight. Constantinople, Nov. 29. A formal armistice for a fortnight is now within sight, according to an official an nouncement made tonight. "The pourparlors at Caghtche are proceeding in a satisfactory manner and there is reason to hape the ar mistice may be signed in a day or two," the announcement said. The information was given out af ter a meeting of the Council of Min isters, which was m session from until 10 o'clock. It was called to dis cuss a report submitted to Kiamill Pa sha, the grand vizier, by Osman Nazim Pasha, Darned Ferid and Mustapha Rechad Bey, Minister of the Interior, I'who went to Gaghtcbe this morning and conferred with the peace pleni potentiaries and returned to the capi tal this evening. Prior to the meeting of the Council of Ministers the grand vizier had an audience with the Sultan and also vis ited the British and Russian ambas sadors. Fire broke out in the Porte this evening, but was quickly extin guished. Several more Unionist deputies were arrested in connection with the plot against the government. Albanian Independence Announced Paris, Nov. 29. A telegram ad dressed to "His Majesty, the French Republic," announcing the proclama tion of the independence of Albania, was received at the foreign office to night from Ismail Kemil, the Albani leader. . Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 29. Five months and six days was fixed by wit nesses at the "dynamite conspiracy" trial today as the time it required to arrest James B. McNamara, dynami ter of the Los Angeles Times building, in which 21 persons were killed, after the dynamite had been pointed out to detectives. The substance of the testimony as to dates, was: On November 2nd, 1910, one month and one day after the Los Angeles ex plosion, in a hotel lobby in Chicago, Herbert S . Hockin, secretary of the Iron Workers Union and accused "be trayer" of the dynamiters, gave to Raymond J Burns, son of the detec tive who finally caused the arrests, a full description of McNamara and Or tie E. MoManigal. On November 5th, at a railroad station in Chicago, Ray mond Burns, to his detectives, pointed II. G. CONFERENCE AT FAYETTEVILLE Three Places Bidding for Next Year's Sessions of Methodists A BUSY DAY WAS YESTERDAY Large Class Received. Into Full Con nection Yesterday With Address by Bishop Rumors as to Appointments. (By Mamie Bays.) Fayetteville, N. C, Nov. 29. It is known that tomorrow morning at least three places will be nominated as the place for holding the next session of the North Carolina Conference of the out McManigal, who was leaving for Methodist church, which concluded its a nonunemp near uonover, wis., ana third days work here today uibu uuicu lug ueteuui ves iu luiiuw, $1,500 WORTH OF FURS STOLEN Horseshoe Again Hurled Through Win dow of Store at Chicago Chicago, Nov. 29. For the second time within a week thieves early to day hurled a horseshoe wrapped in newspaper through the -window of a store on Michigan boulevard, got .their plunder $1,500 worth of furs in an automobile and escaped. Last week what is believed to be the same gang of thieves, robbed a store of $2,500- in gems after breaking the window with a horseshoe, n - On November Gth, at Kenosha, Wis Detectives William J. Ottis and Ben jamin F. Damon found McManigal had been joined .by McNamara, who under the alias of "Frank Sullivan,' accompanied a hunting party to Con- over, where from November 26th to December 4th, the detectives "shadow ed" the dynamiters by talking to them in camp and observing them through field glasses. Finally McNamara and McManigal returned to Chicago on a train on which there were no detec tives. In January, 1911. Raymond Burns met Hockin in Chicago and asked the whereabouts of McManigal who in the meantime had been to Los Angeles and caused an explosion there at the Llewellyn Iron Works. The substance - of Raymond Burns' testimony was: "OnNovember 2nd, I met Hockin in a hotel lobby in Chicago. He told me that Bryce, then being hunted on the Pacific coast, was James" B. McNama ra, and that J. M. McGraw, wanted for explosions in Peoria, 111., wasMc- Manigal. I located McManigal's house In Chicago and so traced him to" the Northwestern station, where on operatives to follow and to gee with. whom he was connected. From time to time I received information from the hunting , camp in Wisconsin. Two weeks later I met Hockin in Chicago. He told me he was satis fied John J. McNamara was doing the dynamiting for what money there was in it, and he said he did not like it, for he was afraid it would ruin the union. Later William J. Burns, Hockin and myself met. William J. told Hockin the result of the investigation on the Pacific coast, which was that Olaf F. Tveitmoe and Anton Johann- sen, ot San Francisco, had arranged with Caplain and Schmidt to blow up the Times building. William J. ask ed Hockin if he knew anything on this point. "Hockin replied he knew nothing about what Tveitmoe did as that was a matter handled on the coast. Hock in did say, however, that Tveitmoe and Johannesen had arranged to blow Up William J. in Seattle, or San Fran cisco by placing a bomb in a room next to his room at a hotel." Ottis and Damon testified about fol lowing the dynamiters to the Conover hunting camp. With the examination of its 53oth witness, the government practically Icompleted its case today,, although the district attorney said he would call a few more witnesses to testify on minor points. The defense then will begin. Concerning the ruling of the court that 14. of the defendants must fur lush new bonds because their present (bonds are indemnified and therefore invalid, the district attorney announc ed he would give all an opportunity to procure bonds before insisting that they "be taken in custody." NOTED EDUCATOR PASSES Dr. Wm. Watfgh Smith Succumbs to Lingering Illness Lynchburg, Va., Nov. 29. Dr. Wil liam Waugh Smith, chancellor of the Randolph-Macon system of colleges, president of Randolph-Macon Wo men's College of Lynchburg and found er of the woman's college and Ran-dolph-iMacon Academies at Bedford City, Va., and Front Royal, Va., died here early today after a lingering ill ness. Dr. Smith, who was a prominent figure in Southern Educational circles, was a warm personal friend of Presi dent-elect Woodrow Wilsdh. He was born in Warrenton, Va.. March 12th. X845. He served four years in the Confederate Army and was twice wounded. The funeral will take place tomor row, a service 'being held at the col lege for faculty and students at 1:30 o'clock, and at 3 o'clock at Court Street Methodist church for the pub lic. The 575 college girls will sing Dr. Smith's favorite hymns at the college service. Burial will" be here. Deposits made in SAVINGS DE PARTMENT of the AMEftKJAN NA TIONAL BANK on or before the sec ond of. December will draw 4 per cent. Compound Interest from December first The American National Bank has over . two million dollars resourc es and offers more protection to SAV INGS DEPOSITORS than any bank In this section of the State. (Advertisement.) 2t i These will be Oxford, Wilmington and Greenville, and other nominations may be added to the list. Each place will be well represented. Beginning today rumors regarding the appoint ments for the coming year increase rapidly until the closing session of the conference. Among the rumors in circulation today it is said a change of pastorate may be made between H. M. North and J. D. Bundy, the former going to Elizabeth City and the lat ter to Edenton Street, Raleigh. An other is to the effect that Mr. Bundy will succeed L. E. Thompson at Hay Street, Fayetteville, and Mr. Thomp son will be appointed Presiding Elder of one of the districts. Still another rumor is to the effect that L. P. How ard will be sent to Elizabeth City, and Mr. Bundy will succeed him at Rocky Mount. M. T. Plyjer, on the conference floor today, opposed the increase of any of the assessments on the conference un less - the matter was fully discussed on the conference floor beforehand, and the increase recommended by the conference. , v Proceedings In Detail Conference convened at 9:30 o'clockv this morning, Bishop Collins Denny in; She' cBairT- v:: -r 2i T- TTf T" -T 11. J J. J 11 J ' ttev. w. a. inotiii conuucieu me u votional service. The minutes of the session of Thursday were read and approved. On motion of their presiding elders, the. following named members of the Con ference, having passed the examina tion of character, were referred to the committee on Conference delations for the superannuate relation: J. Y. Old. M. A. Smith, W. H. Moore and D. Pegram. On motion of A. P; Tyer, the ordenl of the day for 10:30 o'clock, Saturday, morning was made the selection of. the place for holding the next session Of the Conference. Answering question 12, three local preachers were recommended for dea- cons' orders. Answering question 16, W. B. Hum-, ble, a local preacher, was, recommend ed for elders' orders. They are Frank Creek Fulcher and Charles Edward Vale, from the New bern district, and Samuel James Mc Connell, from . the Rockingham dis trict. R. H. Willis, secretary of the Con. ference, read a telegram from Bishop John C. Kilgo, who is now presiding over the South Carolina Conference at Anderson, S . C . The telegram ex pressed fraternal greeting from Bishop Kilgo to the North Carolina Confer ence of which he was a member when elected to the Episcopacy. The secre tary of the Conference was instructed to send a reply to Bishop Kilgo in the name of the Conference. Question 14 was called again: "What traveling preachers are elected deacons?" Answering this question Eduard Davis Dodd. from the New bern district, was elected to deacons' orders in addition to those elected Thursday. ' Answering question 7, "Who are re ceived from other churches as local preachers?" Bishop Denny announced none had been received and the answer was "none." Question 8 was called: "Who are received from oth er churches as traveling preachers?" Answering this question, T. M. Lee in elders' orders inthe Pentenostal Holiness Church, was recognized as coming into the Methodist Church and into the N. C. Conference as a travel ing preacher. Announcement was made that R. L. Andrews, an elder In the Wesleyan Methodist church, desired to ,be re ceived as a traveling preacher but as he had not arrived, action was defer red. Continuing question 8, J. H. Hall, presiding elder of the Raleigh dis trict, announced that William Hoke Smith, an elder in the Church of the Disciples, desired to be received as a traveling preacher. Mr. Hall repre sented Mr. Smith as a man who would be desirable if received into the Con Terence and he made a motion that Mr. Smith be received and recogniz ed as an elder in this conference. In formation was presented then show ing that in the Church of the Disciples preachers are ordained but once and the ordination is for elders' orders, whereas in the M. E . Church, South, every preacher must be ordained dea con before he can be ordained elder. In view of these facts Bishop Denny suggested that it -might be wise for the Conference to receive Mr. Smith, as a deacon and then at the proper . time let him foe ordained, elder - and j ml U3J V V v..